James is a Physician at Axis and returned to The Blues in 2024 for their championship winning season. This followed 4 years as All Blacks team doctor culminating at the Rugby World Cup in France. He was with the Blues from 2018 – 2020 and has previously worked with The Chiefs, Counties Manukau, and New Zealand Sevens Teams who he worked with up to the Rio 2016 Olympics. He also worked for 5 years at The Heineken Tennis Open in Auckland.
James has been a college examiner for the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians, a sports medicine reviewer for the British Medical Journal and co-author of the NZ sports medicine research review. Previously, he ran the Auckland University postgraduate diploma in sports medicine as a senior lecturer.
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